Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Judges go bananas over banana skin curry

Last weekend I was invited to take part in Low Carbon West Oxford’s ‘Ready, Steady, Cook’ style competition at their ‘Beet the Waste’ 10th anniversary celebrations at Tap Social in Oxford. My fellow competitors were cooking professionals, Christina from Relish and Sandra and Marie from Waste2Taste.

I hadn’t realised that I was supposed to be a team on my own. I thought I was joining one of the other teams, so I had only brought one frying pan, a chopping board, one knife, some spoons, some spices and a big bunch of herbs I’d picked from my garden. When I was shown to ‘my station’ and saw the two gas burners I was a little daunted. What was I going to cook with just me and my one pan?

As three competing teams, we had an hour to select our ingredients from the food surplus at Oxford Food Bank, and then cook up a feast with what we found. Read more...